Bloody Sunday (1965)
Bloody Sunday was an event that occurred in
Selma, Alabama on
March 7,
1965 in which
Alabama State troopers and local law enforcement officers, forcefully broke-up a group of 600
civil rights marchers. The event was
televised and the apparent brutality of the images helped sway the opinion of the American people in favor of the
US civil rights movement.
See also: Martin Luther King, Jr